The company, which specialises in vehicles for kerbside-sort recycling collections, has provided trucks to East Ayrshire, Powys, St Helens and Conwy councils in the past.
The 40 new trucks are now in operation for local authority fleets in Wrexham, the Lake District, Devon and Flintshire.
The new trucks have been fitted with Allison 2500 fully automatic transmission with four-cylinder PACCAR PX-5 engines.
John McKeown, technical director at Romaquip, said: “The preferred transmission for the refuse and municipal sector is an Allison, due to its quality, reliability and ability to protect the driveline. Along with Allison’s UK team, we were able to work with the DAF engineering team based in Leyland to secure the release of the ideal specification for our application.”
Transmission
According to Mr McKeown, an automated manual transmission (AMT) was not suitable for the creeping speeds and multiple stop-start conditions customer vehicles face, but there was no Allison option available with a 4-cylinder Euro 6 engine.
He added: “We also considered the 6-cylinder DAF LF220 with an Allison 3000 Series transmission, but that configuration would have added half a tonne, putting too much additional weight on the front axle. The Allison 2500 model solution is a godsend for our sector.”
Romaquip entered the kerbside collection market in 2011 with its Kerb-Sort vehicle, the first with a fully automated unloading system. Able to separate 10 kinds of fully segregated, unpolluted waste in a single pass, Romaquip guarantees off-loading in just seven minutes.
A stainless steel, compartmentalised body extends the normal vehicle life of five to seven years out to 10 to 14 years, the company claims.
Romaquip adds that the vehicle can compact up to four tonnes of payload into a 35-metre-cubed collection space.
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